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Fiona Orford-Williams

EQS Group - Continuing investment

Q3 figures were consistent with the previous indications during this year of peak investment in the €9m programme to build a global regulatory tech platform business. FY18e guidance, however, has been tightened to the lower end of the range and we have reined in our FY19e and FY20e revenue and EBITDA forecasts. FY20e still shows a strong increase in return on sales, with EBITDA margin rising to 12%. EQS is building an attractive recurring revenue base (81% of total sales in Q318). It has its eyes firmly on the prize of being an integral part of companies’ corporate compliance and investor relations functions across the globe.
Underlying
EQS Group AG

EQS Group AG, formerly known as EquityStory AG, is a Germany-based provider of regulatory technology (RegTech) in the fields of corporate compliance and investor relations. The Company's activities are divided into two operating segments: Compliance and Investor Relations. The Compliance segment comprises all products required for companies to fulfill their legal and regulatory obligations, including reporting obligations in the news segment (disclosure), submissions to the Federal Gazette (filing), and new products, such as Insider Manager, Integrity Line, LEI, and ARIVA Workflows. The and Investor Relations segment encompasses products for the areas of financial and corporate communications, including news, websites portals, webcasts and media. In addition, its products are pooled in the cloud-based software EQS COCKPIT. The Company's clients are small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), as well as corporate customers. It provides services worldwide.

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Fiona Orford-Williams

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